An Indian Lost: Dr. Hargobind Khorana :(

Dr. Hargobind Khorana, the Indian Nobel Laureate, passed away on 9th Nov 2011. It is  that the demise of such a genius Indian was neglected by the media for some very trivial and pesky coverage of celebrities. It is indeed very lamentable and would wish media to draw its attention towards Indians who have created a history in world and left a mark. A Nobel Winner for Medicine, Dr. Khorana's work was a great boost for the entire genetic engineering and the pharmaceutical field. He solved the mystery of Human Genes in three letters; U, A and C! These custom-designed pieces of artificial genes are widely used in biology labs for sequencing, cloning and engineering new plants and animals. A company can order a synthetic gene from any of a number of companies. One merely needs to send the genetic sequence to one of the companies to receive the desired sequence. The entire clone engineering received a major boost due to this. he received the Nobel Prize in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley.

But who cares!

R.I.P. Dr. Khorana! India will remain indebted and so will be the entire world

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RA. One: Why is it over-rated?

Infinitely stupid and an arrogantly retard movie. Why? Because I had hopes? Naah. When it is SRK, I just hope a good Hindi copy of English movies. So just in that hope, I zip zap and zoomed to Wide Angle, a prominent theater of Ahmedabad. The moment I entered, I felt that I am going to see a big budget movie, full of VFX. And I was a bit confident that SRK may not excel in acting, but VFX wasn't his arena and hence I wished an adrenaline packed action!

Adrenaline? I needed an Aspirin. The entry video (mind it, Video!) is such a dumb piece of SRK type comedy, that within 1st five minutes, the films starts to get on your nerves. That too in such a way, that you start worrying that whether the film is going to start or not. Frankly speaking, I was a bit confused. I had heard of RA. One first and the last time, when it was declared that SRK was up-to something. My idea during the 1st scene was that maybe, as happens in Bollywood, Kareena might have been dropped out of it. But Sanjay Dutt wasn't there in my dreams! I was a bit baffled. But when I saw a copy of Batpod driven by our own SRK, I got that. The master copier was on the way. But that horrible dream of SRK's son (he was tooooo! :) Irritating! :( :P ) is, I mean, in no case it develops your interest in movies. Papa The Great chhaap comedy, sounds cliche.

Story is cliched. A father tries to prove a hero in his son's eyes. Purely imperfect. SRK doesn't strike a single chord, not even a besura taal, in his character of Shekhar Subramaniam. Accent is horrible and funnily mediocre. I can't understand why a South Indian is always postered as "Aiyai yo", "Yenna", "Appa" and "Rascala"? Why? It seems that RA. One was there to compete Robot in terms of IQ (Irritating Potential)! Mind blowing RA. One scored 300! :D

In the middle of torture, comes an interval. Post interval, the movie gains a momentum for a little time. But the script doesn't follow "Law of Conservation of Momentum" and turns to a momentary impulse, losing gravity and poking fun on its own script! Exalted. Why? Because that is probably the last straw on the camel's back. Kareena (I never liked her acting) is more funny when she gets emotional. That small kid, is an un-originally idiot "dood". Rampal is quite nice, contrary to my belief. And seriously, he is much much much better. Shahana Goswami, you are wasted. Sorry for you.

To sum up, SRK's movies are nothing else but a self sung melodies of praise and whose notes are copied from Western movies like TRON: Legacy, Terminator, Iron Man, Transformer, The Dark Knight (esp. that 1st Batpod scene) and what not. Too many cooks may spoil the broth, but it is okay, unless you have to pay heavily, like 2.5 hours and some Rs. 150. My verdict is that, people who say "We should praise an Indian film's effort" please make yourself comfortable in this hula-hoop of blatant sensationally promoted mindless, second-rated movie. Please SRK, do something original like Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, or Baadshah, but for God's sake, don't play with people's money. RA. One is nothing more than a thug movie, which robs not only your money but also your precious Diwali, mood, fun and jeers at the capability of an Indian movie's damn fool replica of several benchmark flicks!

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iRequiem For An iDream

Requiem: A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

Dream: Something which Steve Jobs redefined (without going to sleep)

There is something in the title of this blog, I hope which most of you might have understood. "i" is no longer just a letter. "i" is no longer in capitals. "i" is iPhone, "i" is iPod, "i" is iMac. "i" is Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs retired from Earth on October 5, 2011. I was shocked at 7am today (6 Oct.) when I saw in the headlines that Jobs quits Earth. Though I am neither any "i"-product user, but as many laymen, I have always been fascinated by them. It isn't that smooth scrolling of the iPhone, that touches your heart. It is the background of a two-time cancer patient's impatience towards innovation that steals the heartbeat. To idealize innovation is good and necessary, but to put innovation in practice is difficult. But DIFFICULT wasn't the word in Jobs iDictionary. He was a man with DIFFerent CULT.

As usual but with a heavy heart, I posted a tribute to Jobs in my ScientiFreak SMS channel. I was really sorry. I became much sorry when some messages reverted as "Who was he?", "Oh :(. Who is he?" It isn't just the ignorance of people. One cannot expect each common man having knowledge about such CEOs or Chairman. But then....Nothing.

Steve Jobs was admired widely for his extreme determination in fighting the cancer battle, twice (Liver and Pancreas). But what I liked the most of him was the innovation. You may have instances of numerous people who might have fought cancer with zeal, but Jobs wasn't one of them. He innovated till his death by placing an iPhone 4S in market. Many people will add that as a product gimmick or whatever, but I say, that "iPhone 4S" means an "iPhone 4Steve".

Apple's product are probably the most expensive consumer products (I have a dream to own a MacBook just because it is priced at >= 1 Lacs :) Wish me luck!) But the second you just see them (not even touching it), you will feel the ambiance of creation. You feel the aroma of a continuous dying spirit which may not be seen henceforth.

It isn't that only Apple has lost him. The entire Orange has also lost him. (Orange as described for the shape of Earth)

Well, who am i (should I write I or "i") to tribute such a great soul? No one pays a tribute to him. But yes, the coming years will hear a ring of a faint echo of Steve in the field of IT and Computers, when a force of invention will be felt to be at rest.

My quote for Steve:

"Steve Jobs hasn't died. He has just innovated himself from his ailing body to a cleaner and greater soul!"

R.i.P Jobs

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Why you shouldn't be an Indian? (Part-1)

Today I came across one of the harshest (and but obvious, expected) reality of Indian mind set. I saw a future, which most of you might never have thought of. Or even if you had a pinch of this bitter prediction, I am proud to have you as my subscriber! :)

India:

 A country where problems aren’t solved, where problems are considered to be appetizer or a daily dose for becoming active (!) and prove yourself as a powerful person. A place where not only wretched politicians are corrupt but the entire population is corrupt. It isn’t only the illiteracy; it is also the education which creates the problem. It isn’t only the uncivilized people; it is also some so-called civilized divas, which are meaner than wretches.

Whenever you see a growth chart of India, mind it very well that it is like calling a 12^th failing person 12^th STD genius. It is like describing Einstein or Newton as fools. It is like reversely writing GOD and then praying that. 

India is a country where even <2% are honest. It is even a greater figure, so let us calibrate it to < 2 x 10^-3 %.

A disturbing incident, I would not like to mention here, occurred tonight, leaving me a hopeless and a psychotic idealist whose ideas were treated like some perversions. Whose suggestions were ridiculed to the apex of their sheer bastardliness. I found a solution to one of the simplest and most rampant problem in the most foolproof way. It didn’t take even a minute to come across that answer, but I can’t stop swearing that how meanest and most negative people can create problems. Solutions should be found out by taking the worst possibility in mind. Design it for future expansion and then give approximate safety space. But here, it is like cross arguing. It is the blame game which just doesn’t end.

I am in no mood to write further (and so I have made this post in parts) as it is a “The Dumpyard” and I don’t want to make it as dirty as India (You have problem with this? Sue me and I will be the 2000000th case. Nothing more!)

Good Night and Have a nice day tomorrow!

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Sniffler's Metadata!

Sniffler: A person who is suffering from congested nose and breathing heavily.

Metadata: Data about data.

“Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with running nose”

-Mikhail Kalashnikov

The man who said the above lines, invented our terrorists dearest AK 47! I laughed at it initially but not any more. *SNEEEZEE* (Handkerchief aided cleaning of my nose). Hell the climate, where neither rain falls and nor the rain from someone’s nose stops! Aware are the people who don’t think what they should and who talk they should not! Interestingly, nothing happens when you want to get out of a pathetic situation. Neither your phone rings, nor there comes an alert about your result, nothing! Absolutely nothing. Well, lemme start now what I am talking about.

Once upon a time, in the month of July 2011, a boy named Chinmay, was sitting at a café, waiting for his friends. Unfortunately, they didn’t show up but the heavy rain did. Stranded all alone, he was unable to think of what to do, when he called at his home, to inform about the situation. He plugged his divine headphones and started listening melodious remixes. But there was a devil, the Sniffler, about whom Chinmay didn’t know. He came with a wrecked elder voice of scolding and in the attire of a really sophisticated (deceptive) man. So he the conversation goes:

Sniffler: Why you people hear to this nonsense headphones all the time?

Chinmay: Excuse me? Sir, are you telling this to me?

Sniffler: See? You don’t even know who is clling you! (Loudest , heaviest and wettest sneeze ever arrives)

Chinmay: Ohh. I am sorry! I didn’t…

Sniffler: You have a cloth piece or kerchief?

(Chinmay frowns in dilemma. What if he will say “No” to that old man? Nope. He will bombard lecture. Nope!)

Chinmay: Of course. Take this. (Giving with an expression of not wanting to receive it back)

Sniffler: Good. (No Thank You).

Chinmay: You gotta cold? Cough too?

Now starts the climax of the story as the devil shows his real face of pathetic dirtiness, his sadistic pleasure of making someone to puke, his harsh wet coughing voice which is the icing on the cough cake.

Sniffler: You don’t know. Three days before, I was all wet in rain. Upto here (shows his drenched thighs on which there are some twigs!). When I was at you age…

Chinmay: (Interrupting to save himself of the “Good Old Days” lecture) Ohh my God! What happened after getting drenched?

Sniffler: Oh…I went at my home then. But the next day, when I woke up, I saw that my pillow was covered with thick yellow stinking mucus from my nose! (Chinmay pukes from the soul but doesn’t show) Then I went to the basin and sniffed it out. It took approx half an hour to clean my nose. (Chinmay just tries to say about doctor) No doctor can do that. It was pathetic. Then I used my brain. I kept sneezing like this (gives free and full demo). And there came out pint of mucus! (Unfortunately, it was repeated too! Yuuccckkk!) I did that for an hour. Then, slowly I started feeling good. (Chinmay sneezed. Surprisingly, he gave a handkerchief. Wonder!) But yesterday, again my entire handkerchief was rot. There was fungus and mucus around it and it turned into a hard starched-like cloth. I cleaned it and you can see now as you are using (Chinmay cries from the soul but again, doesn’t show) and it’s as good as new! Then…

The story is too long to be told and too pathetic and nauseating to hear. I would like to conclude here. That old man got me jitters and shivers with his “Delhi Belly” talks. I don’t remember how he stopped and how I was saved. I came home by keeping my eyes down of furious lightning. So, I don’t know how the time passed and I was saved from getting passed away. Ending with something, not like a poem:

I was the victim of the heavy rain.

I was the victim of my friends ignoring pain.

I was the victim of that dirty Sniffler’s talks.

I was the victim of “Sniffler’s Metadata!”

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The "Bayooon" man! It isn't a child's play now!

Hello folks!

I am happy to see myself again writing the blog and seeing you reading it happily (go on. This time I have summin’ different to say). Every time, I have one or the other idea about the surroundings and think like, “OK. What’s the big deal about it?” attitude, because most of the things have lost their meanings and are just a living/non-living objects which are in this world fulfilling other people’s desire and then get thrown away. Kind of depreciation, you know.

I was taking an evening walk near my house, when I surprisingly saw a modern child with a modern mother, standing near a balloon man and his mother was willfully purchasing balloons for her baby. The boy shouted in his cheerfully humming and unclear voice, “Bayooon!” (Yeah. Children of such age SHOULD speak like that and not in a sophisticated parrot voice, new mothers! It’s their innocence). The way that baby pronounced balloon was so mesmerizing that even an aged wrecked and wretched person would start loving balloons. Wow! It was a rainy weather and wet all over. And there lied the soothing smell of the wet soil and the soothing symphonic shout of the child! It was just an event that was as rare as a gamma ray burst (SPOILERS: ANTI-SCIENCE people can skip this line but can read “blue moon” instead of gamma ray burst).

This case is very rare. Really, I haven’t seen any mom-child pair buying balloons or any such things which were natural pleasure in yore. I have seen mom talking over her cell phone and her child looking blankly at the traffic honking. I have seen a mom bargaining with the store owner and the child listening to music with an iPod or so. Or in worst case (comic too!), the mom is fighting with the store owner and the child is crying loudly. You all can assume what the mum next step can be. Yep, you are right.

Karate classes, swimming classes, academic tuition right from 1^st grade, mental math classes, singing classes, dance classes, social networking (this should be considered as a censored material just like an adult film with same age limit restrictions) etc. and what not. Really speaking, the meaning of the phrase “A child’s play” has drastically and has contrarily changed now. All this should be legally banned for a child below 10 years of age or so. The strain which the parents are applying on them just ruins them. Recently, I have observed that the small children aren’t crying, they won’t pine for things. They have become blank. This is extremely dangerous. It is spoiling the entire innocent generation. The ultra modernization of the tech world is definitely going to kill them. Placing an iPod or a BlackBerry or gifting a MacBook Pro, is not going to make your child survive in this world. The real talent is brain which blooms in gardens, friends, fights, fun, drenching in rain, playing (not on PC!), buying “bayooons” (I am kinda like this word from the core of heart now!). I know many of the readers may argue that the child won’t be competitive if he doesn’t go to classes. My answer: Have you heard the word “saturation”? Yes. That’s the word. None of us is going to feel but the perpetrated (read: A child performing “modern acts”) will produce a silent shrill which will slit our soul. Biologically too, a child’s mind is too under developed to fulfill his parents’ desire of achieving a black belt in karate at the age of 9 or becoming Ian Thorpe at the age of 7 or dancing for 3 straight hours.

But I know none of the parents are going to think about this. And I am not going to give you any example which will make it clear. Why? Coz you don’t wanna think and I don’t wanna say.

Step Up: “Delhi Belly”. A movie not recommended even for adults and ONLY for PERVERTS! Cheapest and meaningless movie with a very ordinary storyline and extraordinary use of swear words. (Your socially active child of 10 will discuss Delhi Belly on Facebook, won’t he?).

Tribute to innocent childhood voice: "The Cuppy Cake" Song (Click for the video and for Mp3 download). Watch or listen to revive the child in you, if any. Hahahaha!

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The Scientific Insult!

I hope all of you have seen "Avatar" (Eng) or atleast have heard of it. I was just revising the story when a very illogical and non-scientific side of it clicked me. According to the movie, the Pandora planet is 4.3 billion (!) light years away where man is finding the "Unobtainium" (It is not a hi-fi word. Un+obtain+nium :-P). Just think, can we go that much far? No. But let us assume we are travelling with that much speed (=light speed, which is almost impossible as mass will get infinite) that will sum up as we will need 4.3billion years to reach that planet. Now, they are using teleportation. Recent science: wormhole is the key to teleportation, that too theoretically. Ok, let's check it out as a sci-fi and don't blame it. But is it the right way to press wrong thoughts into the mind of people. Unfortunately, John Cameron has always nastily (illogically) played with science even in his, The Terminator series, where he just has confused people with weird time travelling phenomenon. (James Cameron once told that it was difficult to conceive the idea of Terminator but he didn't specifically answer how he figured it out then. Sci-Fi! :-P) Never mind. (Sh)It happens. But looking at my previous post on science (in fact an e-mail) I think that certain normal misconception among the common people is making them to think science is a kind of non-paying subject and they believe that the person becomes more of a bookish kind rather than real knowledgeable. 

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"

So is the pseudo knowledgeable, pseudo secular, pseudo busy, pseudo cultural (it should be easier to classify such people as Pseudomonas. Don't know? Wiki it!) pseudo humanitarian (I hate when people allege the Large Hadron Collider as a waste and an uneconomic junk. Maybe, one day due to LHC, you may be able to buy diamonds, create healthier plants and what not at the basic sub-atomic or atomic level)

Doesn't matter. Maybe this was a heavy dose for a blog written after a long time. I am surprised by the way. The 10th follower of my blog is named, Kinjal. May I know who you are? :D

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The Science

Long time since new post, eh? But "der aaye durust aaye". So, firstly Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening (and for uninterested people, Good Night!) to all the readers of this blog (I am stuck to 8 followers and want you to do a little marketing for this blog honestly, if and only if you feel this blog is a nice one).

 So, here we go>>>>

An exercise I have started as a routine and that is sending scientific messages, precisely SMSes, to all interested people. Actually the following blog is an e-mail I sent it to the Sci-SMS friends but after some discouraging comments which blamed me of wasting their time (as if I am always free! :-@) I was tempted to write this email to them. So here it goes.

NOTE: Here you can assume (sms friends) = you (blog readers), but leave it for now.

****The E-mail Starts****

Almost every day, I am sending you all some FYI smses and some quotes by scientists. Few of you like them and rest think it to be a trash. I am not doing this to irritate you but I have few reasons which have compelled me to do so.

1. People have lost scientific approach towards everything. What you call the scientific reasoning in your day to day life is just a scientific fact you have accepted.

2. We marvel at scientific applications like the cellphone, iPad, IPhone and all. We love the touch screen devices. But can you marvel at the science behind it? Can you marvel at the operating system intelligence behind it? Can you marvel that how 1 and 0 that can provide you with the most powerful and funky gadgets, you ever thought? Can you marvel that how the idea of using binary numbers might have occurred?

3. Falling standards of the education system, purely examination based study approach of students and teachers and totally discouraging government policy have almost killed the value of science. Discouraging government policy example: The salary of a scientist in ISRO is too low compared to that of a NASA scientist. Difference is ISRO has 99% success rate, almost incomparable to NASA's failure reality.

4. Engineering is a very nice branch. Its meaning is applied science. That means, you should have the basic knowledge else it will be tough to grasp (read again. It will get tough and not impossible to get basic knowledge even at such high level)

5. If people will lose interest in science and research, there will be no progress. Just think, what would have happened if Tim Berners Lee wouldn't have an idea of Internet. What would have happened if William Shockley et al didn't invent semi-conductor transistors? What if Dr. Luke Monteigner would not have found HIV (Human Immuno Deficiency) virus? These are just some vague but true examples. There are many more reasons why progress will stop if scientific approach isn't developed

6. People hate science and see it as an ambiguous, baffling and hyperbolic subject. WRONG! It will never baffle you rather it will purge you of your baffling.

7. I think to be the most powerful thing apart from all and that is religionism. To comment anti-science is now considered to be a status symbol. No one will buy a book on science but people will buy some idiotic so-called aesthetic painting. (Science here: How do you perceive a good painting? How it looks pleasing to you? All because of Golden ratio: 1.618. The Mona Lisa, Our Ear Spiral, the Shell of Snail all are the nature’s beauty designed in this Golden ratio/Golden proportion.)

So these were the points (I doubt whether people will come to this paragraph or not) which are feared in near future and will kill the scientific attitude and approach of people.

I send you some scientific messages just for the sake of you getting spellbound of by the marvellous science. Forwarding philosophical messages without knowledge and just for the sake of forwarding is not an advisable activity to kill time. I know my activity will not be a step to scientific progress. But at least I think that at least some of you will take a bit interest in science after reading it.

Lastly, I would like to give you all an opportunity to be free from my science related messages. Just mail me a simple e-mail telling in short that you don't want these messages. Without getting hurt, I will stop sending you such messages. Because some great person has already said,

"Science is progressing even when you don't know"

Hoping for your reply in an e-mail or a sms.

Chinmay

****The Email Ends****

****Blog Also Ends****

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The WYSIWYG and WYSINWYG Drama

WYSIWYG 

and

WYSINWYG

(First go through the abbreviations carefully) Confused? Hmm...The first abbreviation has to do with virtual computer world. (I wish that you search about this word rather than getting a readymade answer) Okay. So, you want me to give the answer? (Many will say "No". See! I heard that. :P) It's "What You See Is What You Get". Generally, our ppts, word docs, etc. can be categorized as whatever is your input the output is similar to maximum extent.

The second is similar but bit different. (Many of my intelligent readers must have correctly anticipated it. No? Thank you. Now read further.) I have framed it as "What You See Is Not What You Get". If someone asks you about difference between a man and a computer, I am sure you won’t get wrong if you cite the above two terms. Though artificial intelligence is getting complex but still to achieve the human complexity, computers will take ages.

The continuous hullabaloo of the Lokpal bill, numerous processions, meetings, “Love Anna” facebook pages, etc is now very irritating. But one can surely make out what game the Government has played with Anna. I remember that it was a sheer celebration to the AI (artificial intelligence) creators of “Deep Blue” who defeated the world famous chess master Kasparov in 1997. The world was taken aback, precisely mesmerized by the game played by the designed computer and congratulated its creators. Now, who is going to congratulate Mr. Kapil Sibbal, who has not only made an athaana of Anna but has also directed the entire Lokpal drama? Who knows, people wanna enjoy the show.

Anna is a non political or inexperienced idealist politician (Paradox: Idealist-Politician). Sibbal is the gunda of Congress and Congress is the gunda of entire country. Here whoever is going to win is immaterial. Ever thought who is going to look after Lokpal? What if there is gundagiri in the Lokpal itself? What if there is an indirect pressure from the powerful corrupted forces on Lokpals? Simple examples can be of Satyendra Dubey, Datta Patil, Amit Jethva, Vitthal Gite, etc., the activists, rather the term is whistleblower, which tried to pin-point the corrupted officials and died in mysterious circumstances. We all know that there is nothing like mysterious in such cases. A bill is a staunch reflection of bureaucratic approach of people and their government. Which bill has drastically changed the country? Tough question tougher answer. Let’s see what happens.

Lastly, I was thinking that whoever said that “Man is the most beautiful creation of GOD” was a human after all, nai?

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(Expected a juxtaposed, meaningful and grammatically correct arrangement of words. Don't think much, I am talking about a sentence of comment or appreciation.)

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The Monday Blog!

Good Morning to all the readers (I keep telling this because a never-say-die hope whispers to me that maybe someday someone will comment "Good Morning" to you too following a "Stop Writing, Please!" note!). Monday isn't a good day to start work (neither are the other days) but we aren't like Kasab who gets free kabab even for killing India (This is not exaggeration). So get going (don't kill your boss, it's injurious to your wealth!).

While writing this post, I recently observed that our day starts with the twin bro of 0 (zero) that is O (15th alphabet of English. You need to count?!?! Go to sleep). It comes once in "Morning", twice in "Afternoon" and none in "Evening" and "Night" (even Monday has one. So leave your work on other days! LOL, I think). Nice, isn't it?. So don't start your work from morning, leave it for night! Good luck! :P

By the way, I saw few hindi films of and some Hollywood flicks too recent era. The hindi's list was "Wanted", "Robot" (if you consider), "K3G" (I remember that unlucky day!) and a banned (but available on the Internet) "Paanch" (I have already seen it but you know after looking the above ones (Wanted...) one needs to refresh the definition of movies). Before discussing anything else, I saw other Holly movies too, which included "Inception", "Shutter Island", "Pirates Of...Dead Man's Chest/Stranger Tides", "Source Code", "King's Speech", "127 Hours" and a bit of "Gran Torino" (You can spot a difference in the quantity of movies here. Wait for it).

I respect all the Indian film makers (have to say this :P) and their desparation of not winning or making to the Oscars. No doubt, Oscar isn't the only limit and the benchmark. But I would really request all my readers that if you haven't seen any of the above Hollyflicks just go for it and then (you should really try this) pick up any Hindi movie of SRK, KJo, YCho (They sound more like Chinese people) and Bebo (aur bhi hai, lekin rehno do). I am damn sure(st) that you will go insane. One of my favorite writers Aseem Chhabra (a very well known writer), generally comments on Hindiflicks releasing in International festivals. He says that our films are reflecting a kind of Renaissance. I disagree. It maybe an extremely insignificant part who do this. I will say here that of all the above mentioned HinFlicks "Paanch" is just out of category. If Ra.One is to be hyped for its technical surrealistic approach, if SRK is the superstar, if Dabanng (another "g"?) is the best movie after Sholay then folks stop reading this post, as it will hurt you.

"Inception" was a superb craft and rather "Dabba(ngg)" it should be studied. "Shutter Island" is an unmatchable medico-psycho-realistic thriller (can you describe any Hindi movies like this?) and many else. I still believe that old Hindi movies like Shekhar Kapoor's "Masoom" and all are a charm. But we Indians have a bad habit to boast about our fabulous yore and criticize the present. Lemme come now to the point (long way, huh?). We can't make Oscar winning films (even considering)!

"Lagaan" was an emotional film which again took up the cliched subject of Good Indians-Cruel British (in that a good British falls in love. Stereotype!) and a new Cricket Masala. Its hard to digest its nomination to Oscars. "Slumdog..." (can we consider it to be a Hindi one? Let us assume...) a movie with at least a message that whatever happens in life is the answer to our next question (good story!), etc. We copy the subject but alas, we aren't good even at copying. We can't think of subject. We can't think of cinematography, we can't think of a superb logic, we can't (because for us, Ash walking the Cannes is more important than "Udaan" being screened there! Whooops!).

Let me give you a list of few amazing Indian films which I really think might have made for the Oscars (atleast equivalent). "Black Friday", "Paanch" (very disturbing. Will shake you for life), "Masoom" (very cute), "Khamoshi", "Black" (Nice copy), "Teen Patti" (just for its sheer logic of mathematical probability. Else its a dumb one), "Gulaal" (why you should join politics), "Maachis" (disturbing yet captivating) of course "A Wednesday" (speechless) and "Aamir" (I came to know that Aamir was a copy. But then, Whaataa copppyyy! Awesome!), etc. apart from the faltu shehnai and sherwani and Hindu-Muslim bhai bhai mantra made movies. I haven't seen "Shaitan" but I have full expectations from it being a weirdly gripping movie.

Our classy movies are now becoming more like sophisticatedly vulgar (Delhi Belly songs. Shit!). Mass based movies are pathetic and have a puking feeling after watching them. If you gonna blame Rajnikant for such monkey type style then Salman is becoming the Rajni of bollyfolly. Astonishingly, nowadays rip off of contemporary films are done (truly irritating). Wanted ≈ Dabanng ≈ Singham (upcoming) ≈ Bbudhaa Tera (offensive name itself!). Why? Years before people used to tell that films are made just to keep the black underworld money moving. Our research is falling short. Our style of films is falling short. "No Smoking" was a childish film but I bet it was an Indian Inception (for logic of dream) much before the Hollywood film.

Let's categorize few good actors and directors. Actors are: Amitabh Bacchan, Abhay Deol, Ranbir Kapoor (from Rocketsingh not from APKGK), R. Madhavan, Aamir Khan, Konkona Sen, Priyanka Chopra, Kay Kay Menon, Nana Patekar, Rajat Kapoor etc. (only 4-5, which I am unable to remember). Directors: Anurag Kashyap (don't argue for him with me), Shimit Amin, Dibakar Banerjee, Kukunoor, Bhandarkar, Ramu (he is a genius. Don't underestimate him.), Mani Ratnam, Farhan Akhtar etc. (Same: Can't remember few others). I think we should go for films not by the star cast but checking the director and story writer. I still remember how I wasted my precious bucks just by going for a star cast of Kareena and Akshay for Kambakkht Ishq. If worst is to be defined then this is it. The movie showed wastage of bucks and absence of matter. How can you make such films? I doubt whether this film makers do see their films?

This long post is a long warning for those who have bought their tickets to watch "Ready" by Salman Khan. Go for "Shaitan" not for Salman! 

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